Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 34
by, it is believed, revolutionary incendi-aries, and I am informed that this building was more beautifulthan any now remaining ; yet how any building could be morebeautiful than those which have escaped, I am at a loss to* ART, AND ART MANUFACTURES. 15 understand. (Fig. 16 gives the water-tank in… … Fig. 16.—The Water-Tank at Shiba, With its monolith cohimns, on the tops of which festooned draper} in colours and gold is painted. on which we find birds, flowers, water, and clouds carved with atenderness and boldness scarcely to be surpassed, and so colouredthat each object retains its…
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